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OverviewJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julietta SinghPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780822369226ISBN 10: 0822369222 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 22 December 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Reading against Mastery 1 1. Decolonizing Mastery 29 2. The Language of Mastery 65 3. Posthumanitarian Fictions 95 4. Humanimal Dispossessions 121 5. Cultivating Discomfort 149 Coda. Surviving Mastery 171 Notes 177 References 187 Index 197ReviewsSingh's work stands out in its truly transdisciplinary approach and simultaneous mobilization of feminist, posthuman, and decolonial thought. -- Justyna Poary-Wybranowska * Contemporary Women's Writing * A deft intervention in several different fields, Unthinking Mastery powerfully examines the insidious ways that the legacies of colonialism have infiltrated critical conversations in affect, queer, and ecocritical studies. -- Melinda Backer * ASAP/Journal * Seeking new genealogies for decolonial acts and thought, Julietta Singh unknots the connections between stubbornly resilient mechanisms of rule and current forms of knowledge production. Singh sketches the disastrous consequences of the ongoing investments in mastery that result in a ravaged environment and persistent racialized hierarchies of being, thereby giving us a critique of the human, a glimpse of the decolonization of the human, and the promise of something beyond the human. -- Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure Notions of mastery have remained uninterrogated in theory for too long. No matter how reflexive we have become about other forms of power, mastery has been invoked as an essential good. Julietta Singh powerfully challenges this unproblematic invocation of mastery while revolutionizing postcolonial theory by fusing it with new materialism, animal studies, and queer theory. Balancing theoretical sophistication, textual nuance, and self-reflexive engagement with brilliance and care, Singh produces a powerful new theoretical synthesis that accounts for mastery and colonial violence in all their forms. -- Christopher Breu, author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics Author InformationJulietta Singh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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